Homoeopathy — Page 147
Bryonia Alba 147 by the patient, start bleeding. This also happens in Natrum Mur. Natrum Mur is chronic of Bryonia. When the excretions or discharges of a Bryonia patient get blocked, they cause significant discomfort. The sweating becomes a source of blessing to the patient. In the Bryonia cough, the expectoration is very dry, sticky and difficult to expel. To help get rid of dry and sticky sputum, Hepar Sulph and Coccus are also very important remedies in addition to Bryonia and Ipecac. In Bryonia, when the lungs get diseased, the inner linings of the lungs tear and ulcerate causing light bleeding, which mixes up in the sputum. The sputum appears rusty. This is typical of Bryonia. Bryonia works as a useful adjuvant to Phosphorus in the treatment of cancer of the bone. It should be used in potency 30, alternating with Phosphorus. In women, Bryonia can be useful in the treatment of diseases of the right ovary. For the lumps in the breast glands which are firm and hurt on movement, due to cancer or otherwise, the first remedy to be used should be Bryonia. The Bryonia patient with pneumonia of the right lung usually sleeps on the right side, because lying down on the same side helps minimise the movement of the chest wall during breathing. Sometimes during sleep, the patient wakes up with sudden jerking of the body. In , there are three terms used for fever, as follows: 1. Continuous fever which once it starts, will either prove fatal, or when it subsides will never return. 2. Remittent fever is the one which shows peaks. Sometimes it is low and sometimes high, but does not subside completely. 3. Intermittent fever which can totally subside but returns. Malaria is one such example. Typhoid fever is of remittent type which may subside but does not go. Bryonia may be useful in the treatment of remittent and intermittent fevers but not in continuous fever. Often it is needed in the treatment of malaria but is also useful in the treatment of typhoid. The diseases of the glands in Bryonia begin very slowly and then intensify to become chronic, like in Causticum. In Causticum too, the illnesses progress gradually but continuously, and involve the fibrous